Matzlow is a district of the municipality of

Lewitzrand Lewitzrand is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It was created on 7 June 2009 by the merger of the former municipalities Matzlow-Garwitz, Raduhn and Klinken. Districts The municipality of ...

in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; ), also known by its Anglicisation, anglicized name Mecklenburg–Western Pomerania, is a Federated state, state in the north-east of Germany. Of the country's States of Germany, sixteen states, Mecklenburg-Vorpom ...

, Germany.

History

Matzlow Kriegerdenkmal 1914-18 2009-06-23 013

The first documentary mention of the place dates from the year 1370 as ''Maslowe''. Since 1920, Matzlow was an independent municipality in the Neustadt office. The surroundings of the village were significantly shaped since 1958 by the reclamation work in the Lewitz. In 1965, Matzlow and

Garwitz Garwitz is a district of the municipality of Lewitzrand in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Geography Garwitz is located about nine kilometers northwest of the district town of Parchim and 24 kilometers south ...

merged to form the municipality of

Matzlow-Garwitz Matzlow-Garwitz is a former municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Since 7 June 2009, it is part of the municipality Lewitzrand Lewitzrand is a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in ...

Sights

Village church

The current half-timbered church with a three-sided eastern end was consecrated in 1789. The half-timbered tower on the west side dates from 1831 and houses two bells from 1931 and 1961. The interior includes a carved

Crucifix A crucifix (from the Latin meaning '(one) fixed to a cross') is a cross with an image of Jesus on it, as distinct from a bare cross. The representation of Jesus himself on the cross is referred to in English as the (Latin for 'body'). The cru ...

with Evangelist symbols from the 15th century, a simple altar, and a Pulpit clock. Carved reliefs and round pictures come from a lay artist from the 1990s. A church also existed in Matzlow before 1789, the first one was destroyed during the

Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War, fought primarily in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in History of Europe, European history. An estimated 4.5 to 8 million soldiers and civilians died from battle, famine ...

Georg Dehio Georg Gottfried Julius Dehio (22 November 1850 – 21 March 1932), was a Baltic German art historian. In 1900, Dehio started the "''Handbuch der deutschen Kunstgeschichte''" (Handbook of German Art History), published by Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, ...

: ''Handbook of German Art Monuments. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern'', German Art Publishing House, New Edition, Munich/Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6, p. 338Zernin Employment Initiative (ZEBI) e. V. and START e. V. (Ed.): ''Village and City Churches in the Parchim Church District''. Edition Temmen, Bremen/Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-86108-795-2, p. 162

Memorial

Next to the church are the memorial for the fallen of the First World War in front of the cemetery and the former school on Parchimer Street, both under monument protection.List of Monuments Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (as of 1997) on landtag-mv.de
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References

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